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The Citadel of Old Town is the
greatest center of learning in the world.
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Not that it has much competition really.
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Most lords think of books the way
they think of younger sons.
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Useful to have around, as long as
they keep to the corners.
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Back when House Hightower still
ruled Old Town as kings...
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...a crippled younger son sought solace
in books and those who wrote them...
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...and became the greatest patron of
learning in his day.
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Scholars of all sorts flocked to Old Town
to debate and write...
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...and debate.
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After this Prince Peremore's death...
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...his brother granted land to
"Peremore's Pets"...
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...as the wise men were called.
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Though now, they're known as "Maesters".
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Like the Night's Watch, The Citadel
accepts any boy into its halls...
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...be here lordling, peasant or bastard.
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Merit, not birth determines advancement.
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Once a novice proves adept in a field...
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...he forges a chain link
that signifies his skill.
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Black iron is for ravenry,
gold for sums and accounts...
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...silver for healing,
iron for warfare...
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...Valyrian steel for the
higher mysteries.
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Magic. Though, nobody likes to say
the word in the Citadel...
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...or explain how dragons fly and
dead men walk.
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Once an acolyte has forced enough
links to make a chain, he becomes a maester.
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Should he continue his studies...
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...he might rise to archmaester and be
given a ring, rod and mask...
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...forged from the appropriate metal
for his chosen field.
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The wisest or most ambitious of the
archmaesters...
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...might even be called to serve as
a grand maester on the Small Council...
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...responsible for the steering the king
and the realm.
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As well as keeping the Citadel
informed of everything.
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The heart of the Citadel is the library.
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Which contains tomes from all over
the world of every subject imaginable.
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From the trivial
to the essential to the...
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...restricted.
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If the world ended tomorrow...
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...we could rebuild it with the knowledge
contained in these books.
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Theoretically.
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Lets hope it doesn't come to that.
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But as every novice learns,
the Citadel is more than a building...
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...more than a library,
more than an order of maesters.
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It is an idea that we may know the world...
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...not completely,
not in any one man's life time...
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...piece by piece.
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With each generation building upon the
knowlegde of their prodecessors where they can...
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...and preserving it where they can't.
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And unfortunately for us all...
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...forgetting it when they shouldn't.
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